MY SWING. London, Country Life, 1952 8vo. 144pp. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth in chipped dust-wrapper. Instructional. [ref: 76271] £15.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
CROMBIE, (Chas.). LAWS OF CRICKET. ILLUSTRATED BY CHAS. CROMBIE. London, (1907). Oblong folio. Title-page and 12 coloured plates. Original cloth-backed boards, neatly rebacked. Covers and outer edge of plates soiled. Twelve humorous cricket illustrations, with captions. Published by Perrier. Crombie was a well-known cartoonist and also illustrated books on golf and the motor car. See Williams & Phillips, Wisden Book of Cricket Memorabilia, 1990, page 76 (illustrated). Padwick, 7012. [ref: 15362] £250.00 enquire buy |
THE HISTORY OF ROYAL WIMBLEDON GOLF CLUB 1865-1986. Wimbledon, the Club, 1986. 4to. 143pp. Illustrated. Original decorative cloth. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page. A history of Royal Wimbledon Golf Club. [ref: 39196] £15.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
INSIDE THE ROPES. LIFE ON THE PGA TOUR AS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF PHOTOGRAPHER AND CADDY DEE DARDEN. FOREWORD BY NANCY LOPEZ. CONCEPT AND DESIGN BY BILL SPENCER. Cincinnati, Fairway Publications, 1994. 4to. 208pp. Profusely illustrated. Original printed cloth in dust-wrapper. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER DEE DARDEN on page 9. ALSO SIGNED By FORTY-FOUR WOMEN GOLFERS FEATURED IN THE BOOK on their illustrations. Signatures include: Kristi Albers, Dina Ammaccapane, Kin Bauer, Patty Berg, Pat Bradley, Jill Briles-Hinton, Lynn Connelly, Laura Davies, Vicky Goetz, Gaill Graham, Betsy King, Sally Little, Nancy Lopez, Michelle McGann, Meg Mallon, Alice Miller, Dottie Mochrie, Kris Monaghan, Marianne Morris, Caroline Pierce, Nancy Ramsbottom, Susie Redman, Alice Ritzman, Nancy Scranton, Val Skinner, Sherri Steinhauer, Jan Thompson, Sherri Turner and Jo Ann Washam. A pictorial record of the Ladies Professional Golf Association. [ref: 79163] £200.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
A HISTORY OF GOLF IN BRITAIN. London, Cassell, 1952. 4to. xv+312pp. Profusely illustrated, some in colour. Original cloth in chipped dust-wrapper. A history of golf, with contributions by H. Gardiner-Hill, Sir Guy Campbell, Henry Cotton and Henry Longhurst. [ref: 39167] £50.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
THE WORLD THAT FRED MADE. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. London, Chatto & Windus, 1955. 8vo. 288pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. Autobiography of Bernard Darwin, golf correspondent of The Times and Country Life. [ref: 80566] £45.00 enquire buy |
MY PARTNER, BEN HOGAN London, Peter Davies, 1954 8vo. (6)+214pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Good condition. Recollections of the golfer Ben Hogan by the golfer Jimmy Demaret. [ref: 76095] £65.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
A ROUND OF GOLF COURSES. A SELECTION OF THE BEST EIGHTEEN. WITH A FOREWORD BY BERNARD DARWIN. London, Evans Brothers, 1951 8vo. 159pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. An account of play on eighteen of Britian's most famous golf courses. [ref: 76104] £45.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
THE 100 GREATEST EVER GOLFERS. FOREWORD BY PADRAIG HARINGTON. London, Elliott & Thompson Ltd., 2011. 8vo. 284pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. Biographies of some great golfers. [ref: 65361] £10.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
VICTORY! THE STORY OF THE 1995 RYDER CUP. FOREWARD BY BERNARD GALLACHER. PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID CANNON AND STEPHEN MUNDAY. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995. 4to. 96pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in dust-wrapper. SIGNED BY FIVE MEMBERS OF THE VICTORIOUS EUROPE TEAM on the half-title. Signatures comprise: Mark James, Colin Montgomerie, Constantino Rocca, Sam Torrance and Ian Woosnam. An account of Europe's victory in the 1995 Ryder Cup. [ref: 78819] £150.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |